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To: Bob434

“Is this a fancy way of saying that non coding areas are indeed unique and species specific? IF that is the case, then why in the world wouldn’t the non coding areas be taken into account when comparing two separate species?”

Non-coding regions are taken in to account when comparing genomes


220 posted on 06/06/2017 8:43:06 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

i know they are but demmom seemed to indicate it shouldn’t be included becasue, in her words,

“If you compare regions of non-coding DNA between any two species or even sub-species, you will find far more divergence than if you compare the coding regions between the same two species...

Thus, any mutations within that region have no effect on survival. On the other hand, the coding regions of DNA are far less tolerant of changes in bases. Some mutations within the coding region will have little effect: for instance, TAA, TGA, and TAG all mean “Stop” (as in, that is the end of the protein molecule). Thus, an A to G or G to A mutation in those sequences has little effect.”

That seemed to indicate that only the coding DNA should be taken into account unless i was misunderstanding her comments-


221 posted on 06/06/2017 9:04:13 AM PDT by Bob434
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